{"id":160,"date":"2018-09-13T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T08:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=160"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:04:48","slug":"leaders-awards-launch-with-online-interview-with-nasa-astronaut-suni-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/leaders-awards-launch-with-online-interview-with-nasa-astronaut-suni-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Awards launch with online interview with NASA astronaut Suni Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UWE Bristol is pleased to be supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/regions\/south-west\/\">Primary Engineer &amp; Secondary Engineer Leaders Awards in the South West of England<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The awards, also supported by\u00a0Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S), invite pupils from Primary and Secondary schools in the South West of\u00a0England\u00a0to be inspired by an engineer from a local industry. They can then apply an engineer\u2019s eye to the world and identify problems in need of solving. When they have settled on their idea, they draw and annotate it, making clear what the problem is and their unique solution to it.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders Awards\u00a0ask pupils aged 3-19 the question \u201cIf you were an engineer what would you do?\u201d. The free competition asks students to find a problem, invent a solution, draw it, explain and send it in. Pupils are encouraged to both interview engineers and watch the online interviews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/meet-an-engineer\/\"><strong>Online presentation \u2013 Sunita L. Williams \u2013 NASA astronaut 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2.30pm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Primary Engineer are delighted to announce that their live-streamed interviews with engineers are back! Schools can <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/meet-an-engineer\/\">register for the Leaders Awards now<\/a>\u00a0and take part on\u00a0 20<sup>th<\/sup> September at 2.30 pm with Astronaut Suni Williams. More about Sunita can be found on their <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/meet-an-engineer-sunita-l-williams-astronaut-biography\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If your school wants to be involved in any of these interviews please register your interest via email to <a href=\"mailto:info@leadersaward.com\">info@leadersaward.com<\/a> and they will\u00a0 keep you posted on their schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWE Bristol is pleased to be supporting the Primary Engineer &amp; Secondary Engineer Leaders Awards in the South West of England. The awards, also supported by\u00a0Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S), invite pupils from Primary and Secondary schools in the South West of\u00a0England\u00a0to be inspired by an engineer from a local industry. They can then apply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/leaders-awards-launch-with-online-interview-with-nasa-astronaut-suni-williams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaders Awards launch with online interview with NASA astronaut Suni Williams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,24,18,17],"tags":[9,39,10],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-leaders-awards","category-outreach","category-schools","category-teaching","tag-leaders-awards","tag-nasa","tag-primary-engineer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}